No, this is not a cookbook at all, as many may think. But from it you can learn, for example, how Europe honors the memory of the man who invented the most popular snack in Rus', or how King Charles the Evil of Navarre literally died from vodka, but without ever knowing its taste. And also - what is the difference between jelly and jellied meat, and jellied meat from jellied meat, and why did turkey originally from America suddenly become called the “Turkish bird” all over the world, and where is the homeland of apples, and why sturgeon in Rus' were called “red fish”, and what does it mean to be “in the same mess” with someone, and who ate bread with almonds in Ancient Egypt, and why Franciscan monks were forbidden to eat chocolate, and what the laws of King Hammurabi say about beer prices, and why fresh meat is not the best , and how to boil an egg with a sling... Journalist Faina Osmanova and writer Dmitry Stakhov wrote an excellent book, stuffed with many facts - a book in which both lovers of good food and supporters of any diet will find a lot of interesting things for themselves.